Repair of Synthetic Airport Coatings

An artificial airport surface complex is a very expensive installation. Thus prolonging the service life or increasing the inter-repair use period of this structure is a very important problem from the economic viewpoint. No less important is ensuring safety during takeoff, landing, and taxiing of aircraft during the whole course of use of the airport by creating conditions promoting reduction in the operational loads on the aircraft as a whole and on its individual units. On the basis of the generalization of Soviet experience and the study of the foreign literature, the causes of the appearance of deformations in the basic types of artificial airport surfaces and the most effective methods of repairing them with the use of new structural materials are examined. (Author)
Edited machine trans. of mono. Remont Izkusstvennykh Aerodromnykh Pokrytii, Moscow, 1969 p1-190, by Joseph E. Pearson.